Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 EH> Mimi Gallandt -> Ed Hulett wrote:
 MG>> Ed Hulett -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:

 EH>>> I keep seeing those California dairy commercials about happy cows
 EH> with
 EH>>> green rolling pastures and wonder where those are. All I've seen
 EH> along
 EH>>> I-5 are brown flat fields. :-)

 MG>> That's because they're farther inland along 99.  :) What I want to
 EH> know
 MG>> is where the citrus groves have gone? There used to be miles of orange
 MG>> and lemon groves on both sides of I5, but the only place I've seen
 EH> them
 MG>> in I can't remember how long is in the really awesome ride at DCA
 EH> called
 MG>> Soaring over California.

 EH> I remember those citrus groves. They went on for miles. I guess that
 EH> with technology advances in growing such crops they are able to harvest
 EH> more from less acreage.

 MG>> IMO that on ride alone is worth the price of admission.

 EH> There is a similar I-Max type video "ride" for
Washington. They had it
 EH> at the Seattle Science center for a while and it has made appearances at
 EH> the various state fairs and theme parks.

 MG>> It's like an IMAX except more real. You enter the room and
 MG>> get in this contraption that lifts you off the ground while the movie
 MG>> plays scenes from all over California.

 EH> The one for Washington doesn't have the lifts. You just sit down in a seat.

 MG>> It feels like hang gliding (or so
 MG>> I've been told, I've never actually been hang gliding), I love that
 EH> ride
 MG>> it's so realistic, when you're flying over the citrus groves you can
 MG>> smell oranges, over Big Sur you can smell the ocean. :)

 EH> It's amazing how realistic they can make the experience getting your
 EH> other senses involved.

Yes, along with the smell of the ocean at Big Sur there's a salty wind. It
really is worth the price of admission to the park (DCA) by itself. As I
said earlier the park is more for adults than kids. There's a 3D (they give
you special glasses to view the movie) movie of the history of California
narrated by Whoopee Goldberg in the role of Califia. Califia, for whom
California was named, is the Amazon goddess from a romance novel written in
Spain shortly before the Spanish "discovered Baja California. At that
time they believed Baja was an island, instead of a peninsula. The show
goes from the Indios to the Spanish, to the Mexicans to the US to today.
It's a marvelous performance. :)


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